toilet powder

American  

noun

1. a fine powder sprinkled or rubbed over the skin, especially after bathing.

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Etymology

Origin of toilet powder

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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toilet powder

Is also extensively used as a toilet powder, and is sold under various names; it is not so unctuous as the ordinary kind.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus

Any toilet powder or boracic acid will protect the skin to a considerable extent.

From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Simple cold water is better than flour, starch, toilet powder, cotton batting, and other things which are apt to stick, and make an after-examination very painful.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

"I knew," he says, "a great singer who was obliged to renounce the use of the toilet powder called 'à la Maréchale.'"

From The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation by Miller, Frank E.

There were a cracked toilette glass, a few rickety chairs, a heavy smell of stale toilet powder, and little else.

From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Newte, Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can)